Resources

Wild about Waihi projects provide a stimulating learning context for primary and secondary students and the resources included below support the aims of a number of curricula and those in Guidelines for Environmental Education in New Zealand Schools, Ministry of Education(1999).

Creating an awareness and understanding of environmental issues and involving students in effective decision-making are key aims of environmental education and also core objectives of Wild about Zealand. Everyone has a part they can play in restoring New Zealand’s biodiversity, from simply raising awareness to more ambitious pest management or habitat restoration projects.

See Getting Started and Projects to see how your could plan a project to suit your skills, time and resources.

If you have or know of a resource you think worthy of being included, we’d love for you to contribute it. Please contact us for more information.

This page relates articles in recent issues of Water & Atmosphere online to the NZ Curriculum and the subject matrices for the NCEA Achievement Standards and, in some cases, Unit Standards (indicated by US).

Water for all

Oxfam water resource site containing lesson plans and activities for students aged between 9-13 year old.

Weedbusters

This is an Action Oriented Approach for learning about environmental weeds. Follow the link to get a broad picture of the way these resources could fit into an environmental project, such as, stream or forest restoration

Weeds

A website to encourage teachers to use weeds as a learning context in their teaching, to encourage students to learn how weeds impact on New Zealand’s unique environment. Includes resources and learning activities. Primary school.